Without Robert Egger, the night club enthusiast turned hunger-relief leader and non-profit advocate, Campus Kitchens would be little more than that place to refuel between classes.

The man who strives to empower voices in a new generation of service-oriented, “dot orgs”, also conceived and created The Campus Kitchens Project,  modeling the national program after D.C. Central Kitchen, a non-profit he initially founded in 1989.

Egger’s vision has led to the creation of 26 Campus Kitchens today, with even more prepping to open their doors in the coming year. At each kitchen, sometimes hundreds of students volunteer, and most come away with something:  from leadership skills to a new found appreciation for cooking, or a moment shared with someone during meal delivery. Many of these students are not quite sure how to extend this give-and-take beyond the walls of the Campus Kitchen.

That’s where Robert Egger’s live chat at the Campus Kitchen’s Project’s The Kitchen Table comes in. He’ll take to the keyboard Friday, May 14 to chat candidly with Campus Kitchen students, their community partners, and anyone else who’d like to join, about how to propel a life of service into a sustainable career, how he got where he is today, and social enterprise. The chat comes as a timely prologue to the commencement address Robert Egger will give to Gettysburg College on Sunday, May 16. The Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College recently held a campus-wide celebration for hitting the milestone of 10,000 meals served.

Please submit questions for the chat in advance to jtouton@campuskitchens.org by 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 13

Robert Egger will host a live chat on CKP's own social network.

Robert Egger – The Campus Kitchens Project live Chat

Making Meal Service into a Career of Service

When: Friday, May 14 at 2  – 2:30 p.m. EST

Where: The direct link to the chat is here. You must sign up for The Kitchen Table to participate in the chat. Please sign up for The Kitchen Table at least 24 hours in advance to allow for approval.

What: Robert Egger will lead a live, typed chat that talks with students and community partners about what they can create and take with them beyond meal service. How do you propel a college career of service into a lasting career? How is this sustainable? What makes Campus Kitchen volunteers particularly viable in the current economy? How can you be a dot com and a dot org at the same time? How should you best leverage your Campus Kitchen experience in your job search? What brought Robert Egger to where he is today? Egger will answer these questions, and more.

Also: Please submit questions by 5 p.m., Thursday, May 13, for the live chat. Participants are encouraged to ask follow up questions during the live chat session, which is hosted at The Kitchen Table.

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